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Through a collaborative approach, SAFE wants to provide a space to share our research results. By doing so, we intend to create advanced knowledge and make available tools and skills related to sustainability of film heritage between the scholarship and the field of film heritage.

Rossella Catanese, Chiara Petrucci
Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Magazén, Vol. 5, Num. 1, Giugno 2024

The following bibliography is based on criteria of relevance, specifically addressing issues that selectively respond to the main research questions and objectives: archival infrastructure, digital preservation, and stewardship strategies. 

Adelstein, P. Z., J. M. Reilly, D. W. Nishimura, C. J. Erbland, and J. L. Bigourdan. “Stability of Cellulose Ester Base Photographic Film: Part V—Recent Findings.” SMPTE Journal 104, no. 7 (July 1995): 439–47.

Gamma Group, ed. The Vinegar Syndrome: A Handbook : Prevention, Remedies and the Use of New Technologies. Bologna, 2000.

Nikolaidou, Elli, Harrison King, and David Coley. “Archive Film Stores in the Global South: Can They Combine Film Preservation with Sustainability?” Journal of Film Preservation, no. 104 (April 2021): 41–47.

Nishimura, Douglas W. “Understanding Preservation Metrics.” Rochester Institute of Technology: Image Permanent Institute, 2007.

Parks, Lisa, and Nicole Starosielski, eds. Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures. The Geopolitics of Information. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Venturini, Simone. “From the Vaults: Unboxing Analogue Film Storage:” Le Temps des Médias n° 39, no. 2 (November 24, 2022): 118–40.

Antoniazzi, Luca. “Digital Preservation and the Sustainability of Film Heritage.” Information, Communication & Society 24, no. 11 (August 18, 2021): 1658–73.

FIAF. “The Digital Statement: Recommendations for Digitization, Restoration, Digital Preservation and Access,” n.d. https://www.fiafnet.org/pages/E-Resources/Digital-Statement-menu.html.

Jarczyk, Agathe, Reto Kromer, and David Pfluger. Digital Archiving of Film and Video: Principle and Guidance. Bern: Memoriav, 2017.

Kromer, Reto. “Matroska and FFV1: One File Format for Film and Video Archiving?” Journal of Film Preservation, no. 96 (April 2017): 41–45. https://retokromer.ch/publications/JFP_96.html

Pendergrass, Keith L., Walker Sampson, Tim Walsh, and Laura Alagna. “Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation.” The American Archivist 82, no. 1 (March 2019): 165–206.

Cherchi Usai, Paolo. “‘I Can’t Breathe’. Extinction Rebellion to Film Preservation.” The Journal of Film Preservation, no. 103 (October 2020): 9–14.

Fossati, Giovanna. “For a Global Approach to Audiovisual Heritage: A Plea for North/South Exchange in Research and Practice,” NECSUS, Autumn 2021_#Futures (n.d.).3

Kääpä, Pietari, and Hunter Vaughan. “Environmental Media Management.” In The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies. Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks. London ; New York: Routledge, 2023.

Stoeltje, Rachael, South East Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association, National Archives (Singapore), and Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Association, eds. Sustainable Audiovisual Collections Through Collaboration: Proceedings of the 2016 Joint Technical Symposium. Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University Press, 2017.